Man page installation

[NavinB]

Hi,

I have installed solaris 8 on intel and man package SUNWman is also there but files in /usr/man are not there.What shall i do to install and see man pages?

Thanx in anticipation.

NB

 

[KenCunningham]

Not entirely sure about the Intel version, but can you pkgadd SUNWman (in the directory where the pakage is located). You may then have to set your MANPATH (export MANPATH = <path to man pages>) and possibly do a catman to obtain the man -k facility. Let us know how you get on.

 

[NavinB]

Hi,

Thanx for reply...but I have already checked SUNWman with pkginfo and added MANPATH also.But I can't get man pages.Are there any other packages also (besides SUNWman )that have to be added to the system......

 

[KenCunningham]

Not that I'm aware of. Have you tried running catman (might take a while to complete)? Do you get any output at all when issuing, say, a man ls?

 

[NavinB]

Hi,

While issuing cmd &quot;man ls&quot; ...it shows manpage not found.....
But I found out the soln to prob...the man pages dir were not present in /usr/share/man...I copied all files from another server to this one...and it worked like a charm.....
Any idea why these files were not present/added to server when package was installed.....?????

 

[KenCunningham]

Glad you found a solution. I don't really have any idea why the man pages weren't installed - in my experience (using sparc machines), they are installed by default. However, I guess it's possible that they weren't installed because you were doing a custom install and possibly missed the man page installation? Just an idea, but as I say glad you managed to sort the problem. Cheers.